Example Sentences

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But 30% of brackets on Yahoo are crowning Duke as the national champion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

The race to succeed Pelosi carries unusual weight: Voters aren’t merely selecting a representative, they are crowning the next Pelosi, Feinstein or Newsom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

And now you are crowning your infamy by weaving some spell over my cousin and trying to carry her away in the absence of her father and brother, to what unhappiness God only can know.

From Erskine Dale?Pioneer by Fox, John

It is not required of you, who are crowning our little gods with rosemary and the brittle myrtle, to propitiate them with a great slaughter of sheep.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

And I am Ariadne, and you are crowning me!

From Romola by Eliot, George